Is sound always a longitudinal wave? Justify your answer.
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Sound waves are called longitudinal because they vibrate along the direction of travel: the vibrations are in the same direction as the wave is traveling.
Sound waves, however, are called longitudinal because the displacements are in the same direction that the wave is travelling. Longitudinal waves are a little harder to visualize. If you take a slinky and stretch it out on the floor, you can create a longitudinal wave by quickly moving one end of the spring toward and away from the other end of the slinky (parallel to the slinky). You will see that the coils of the slinky will move in the same direction as the wave that’s traveling down the slinky. Note, that you can also create transverse waves by moving the slinky back and forth perpendicular to the stretched out slinky.
It’s important to remember that transverse and longitudinal waves are just a way to categorize many types of waves. For that reason, longitudinal wave is not a synonym for sound wave. Not all longitudinal waves are sound waves.
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Sound waves are called longitudinal because they vibrate along the direction of travel: the vibrations are in the same direction as the wave is traveling.
Sound waves, however, are called longitudinal because the displacements are in the same direction that the wave is travelling. Longitudinal waves are a little harder to visualize. If you take a slinky and stretch it out on the floor, you can create a longitudinal wave by quickly moving one end of the spring toward and away from the other end of the slinky (parallel to the slinky). You will see that the coils of the slinky will move in the same direction as the wave that’s traveling down the slinky. Note, that you can also create transverse waves by moving the slinky back and forth perpendicular to the stretched out slinky.
It’s important to remember that transverse and longitudinal waves are just a way to categorize many types of waves. For that reason, longitudinal wave is not a synonym for sound wave. Not all longitudinal waves are sound waves.
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See Sound is transmitted through gases, plasma, and liquids as longitudinal waves, also called compressionwaves. It requires a medium to propagate. Through solids, however, it can be transmitted as bothlongitudinal waves and transverse waves.
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For a sound wave traveling through air, the vibrations of the particles are best described as longitudinal. Longitudinal waves are waves in which the motion of the individual particles of the medium is in a direction that is parallel to the direction of energy transport.G
thanks for the answer but my question was weather sound is always a longitudinal wave or not
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